Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye banim, the musar (instruction, discipline) of an av, 1 and attend to know binah (understanding). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For I give you lekach tov (good doctrine, good instruction), 1 forsake ye not my torah. 1
Cross References
Psalms 34:11The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; 1 but they that seek Hashem shall not lack any good thing. 1
Proverbs 1:8Beni (my son), hear the musar Avicha, 1 and forsake not the Torat Immecha. 1
Proverbs 2:3Yea, if thou criest out after binah, 1 and liftest up thy voice for tevunah (understanding), 1
Proverbs 6:20Beni (my son), keep the mitzvat Avicha, 1 and forsake not the torat Immecha; 1
Proverbs 8:32Now therefore pay heed unto me, O ye banim; 1 for ashrei (blessed, happy) are they that are shomer over my drakhim. 1
Proverbs 19:20Hear etzah, and accept musar, 1 that thou mayest be wise in thy acharit (latter end, future). 1
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:1
When the things of God are to be taught precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, not only because the things themselves are of great worth and weight, but because men's minds, at the best, are unapt to admit them and commonly prejudiced against them; and therefore Solomon, in this chapter, with a great variety of expression and a pleasant powerful flood of divine eloquence, inculcates the same things that he had pressed upon us in the foregoing chapters. Here is, I. An earnest exhortation to the study of… Read the whole commentary →